Earth Sciences

A metal-organic framework that selectively removes impurities from natural gas could allow greater use of this cleaner fossil fuel.

Call for Abstracts - Deadline: November 20, 2018

Advancing Low Carbon Cities in Malaysia

Researchers have found a way to predict if it will be an El Niño or La Niña year up to 17 months in advance.

Policy experts gather in Tokyo to discuss science advice in a changing world

A new study has utilized a novel method to estimate long-term ozone exposure and previously reported epidemiological results to quantify the health burden from long-term ozone exposure in three major regions of the world.

Professor Richard Bernhart Owen of the HKBU Department of Geography has analysed African lake sedimentary cores and established connections between a drying climate and technological and evolutionary changes in early humans.

New simulations indicate that swirling ammonia in combustion chambers can help reduce harmful emissions – insight that may help on-going efforts to develop ammonia as a carbon-free fuel source.

Females of a socially monogamous passerine, the Japanese great tit (Parus minor), become more promiscuous after hatchings fail in the first breeding attempt — apparently attempting to ensure successful reproduction.

Tantalum nitride as thin layers improve the extraction of electrons from silicon solar cells.

The LUI Che Woo Prize – Prize for World Civilisation and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) today co-hosted the Welfare Betterment Prize Laureate Public Lecture at PolyU.

Both sexes of a songbird called the blue-capped cordon-bleu intensify courtship performances that involve singing and dancing in the presence of an audience, especially if it is a member of the opposite sex, an international team of researchers has discovered. [Joint press release by Hokkaido University and Max Planck Institute for Ornithology.]

Genetics isn’t as important as once thought for the evolution of altruistic social behavior in some organisms, a new insight into a decade-long debate.

The event also garnered strong support from the global innovation and enterprise community

With rapidly increasing research output, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology applauded by Nature Index as a rising star.

A comprehensive model for simulating mudcake growth during oil extraction could transform well-drilling protocols.

Composition in cryptic fauna assemblages changes across a shelf gradient, a recent study of the Red Sea shows.

A numerical study reveals how to reduce instabilities in the complex flow of plasma in converging geometry of particles in fusion reactions.

Climate change forecasts could improve by better understanding the variation in natural carbon emissions from different vegetation types.

Tools developed by Håvard Rue have transformed data analysis, interpretation and communication and are applied broadly: from modeling the spread of infectious diseases to mapping fish stocks.

The unearthed bones of “Mukawaryu,” Japan’s largest complete dinosaur skeleton, have now been prepared and pieced together, giving us a fuller and clearer image of the 72 million-year-old dinosaur.

A team including researchers from Nagoya University finds evidence of collisionless energy transfer occurring in the plasma of Earth's magnetosphere.

Dr. Sivaprakash Sengodan, 2015 Ph.D. graduate from South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has been appointed as a professor at Imperial College of London.

South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has been selected for the 2018 Basic Research Projects in Science and Engineering.

A recent study, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) presented a case study on the temporal and spatial variability of the urban heat island (UHI) effect by geographical location in the study area of Ulsan, Korea.

A graduate student from South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has been selected for GRA-NRF Program in Canada.

A student-led startup team, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has been awarded grand prize at the "2018 Startup Competition, Using National Defense Technology".

A carbon source stemming from daily fish migrations is implicated in the global carbon cycle.

Green Economy & Industry 4.0: Achieving Sustainable Development Goals

Collaboration between Nagoya University and Cornell University develops improved model to assess the ability of black carbon to warm the Earth's atmosphere.